{"id":27760,"date":"2011-08-11T01:01:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T01:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_states_scramble_to_find_prison_chaplains_after_cuts\/"},"modified":"2011-08-11T01:01:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T01:01:18","slug":"rns_states_scramble_to_find_prison_chaplains_after_cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27760","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) States Scramble to Find Prison Chaplains After Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the two months since North Carolina\u2019s legislature laid off most of its prison chaplains, Betty Brown, director of prison chaplaincy services, has been crisscrossing the state searching for volunteers who can attend to the religious needs of Native American, Wiccan and Rastafarian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>State legislators had assumed volunteer ministries would jump in and help prisoners meet the ritual and devotional needs of their faiths. But so far, that hasn\u2019t happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been tough locating volunteers for those faith groups,\u201d\u009d said Brown, whose department lost 26 full-time prison chaplains as part of an effort to close a $2.6 billion state budget gap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/states-scramble-to-find-prison-chaplains-after-cuts-cms-18341\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the two months since North Carolina\u2019s legislature laid off most of its prison chaplains, Betty Brown, director of prison chaplaincy services, has been crisscrossing the state searching for volunteers who can attend to the religious needs of Native American,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27760\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,149,435,184,151,102,108,619,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}